Tag: family

Art View By Jim Christiansen August is near back to school shopping and end of summer time. Third Thursday Art Walk comes up middle of the month August 15, and a good time to take a saunter downtown to the various art walk venues, and make a deal with local artists on a piece of […]

PerformingView By Kaye Osborn The dog days of August have arrived. There is still a lot of good theater to see and embrace. Season subscriptions are available with many theatrical companies locally and out-of-town. You can get more for your buck! There are different ways to access and enhance a live performance. You can borrow […]

Bargain View By Monica Barber The Dog Days of August The dog days of summer are here and they are bringing the August heat. The only thing that can beat the heat is your wallet right now and that’s because Ms. M has some fun ways for you to save while you play. Take the […]

nnoactivities-PDF.pdf National Night Out – August 6 6-9 pm Join your neighbors and “give crime and drugs a going away party!” Want a great reason to get out there and meet your neighbors? National Night Out is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness and to provide an opportunity to promote and celebrate police-community […]

Gallo Summer The Gallo Center takes a summer breather while YES Company takes over the big stage for the amazing performance of Singin’ In the Rain. This is a Broadway quality performance of the stage musical, complete with real rain! The new 2019/2020 season tickets are all on sale now. Some of the highlights this […]

ChillView When it’s hot outside, you need to Chill indoors with some hot team poetry slamming. The Ill List is one of our favorite events each year. Not only do we get an amazing line up of national caliber slam poets, the Ill List team makes out amazing sponsor commercial. This year, the Chill List […]

Bargain View By Monica Barber Jump into July! It’s time to jump into Summertime Modesto! Which means lots of fun in the sun and the best part, getting more down time. Whether it’s staycationing in town, visiting friends, or sitting by the pool. If you’re worried about finding things to do there are a lot […]

The BigView By Chris Murphy This is a big world and Modesto USA is a Classic American City. Yep that’s what we are, we have the best of both worlds, our small town community feel and the amenities of a big city and as a bonus, we are close to two of the most beautiful […]

PoetryView by Sam Pierstorff FIREWORKS We stuffed them in mailboxes, lit the fuses and ran like hell as white-haired men— always in slippers and robes— came running out of their homes with broomsticks (or were they rifles?) to swat the flames that crackled inside, burning up all the bills. They should thank us, we joked. […]

On the cover It takes a village of powerful women to change the course of the world, and fortunately we have some of our future leaders here in Modesto. These amazing girls from Girl Scout Troop 1639 lead by Janelle Shanks Haney are holding the entire earth in their hands. Why? It’s because they are […]

InterView By: Mick V. Rubalcava, Editor-in-Chief of ModestoNews.com The Great Valley Museum Showcases Earth and MORE This month the View Crew is partnering up with organizations and events to promote Earth Day. The City of Modesto leads the way in appreciating and preserving our little piece of this beautiful planet. With all the focus on […]

Greetings friends, I feel like I am scurrying to everything. Do you feel the same way? Spring is most definitely springing as we race from thing to thing, event to event and place to place. It’s like we are the squirrels running through the trees. You can feel it in the air, no matter where […]

Greetings fellow Irish! March is a magic month and the possibilities can take you in a lot of directions. First, the greater Modesto area and the foothills are flat out gorgeous, so you need to get out and explore as much as possible. We are super lucky that not only do we have more events […]

Go Modesto Join the LaLoma Neighborhood for a day in the garden at the first annual Modesto Pollinator Festival to about our local pollinators and for the whole family. This is a free family event to educate our community about the importance of protecting our local pollinators. There will be various organizations participating to share […]

Greetings Friends, I love the feeling of Thanksgiving. That warm home and family feeling. I really don’t care about any of the shopping things, and really, I draw a line at Christmas coming out before Thanksgiving. Call me traditional, but that weekend after Thanksgiving is when the tree goes up and our family gets out […]